I grind so fine, I’m practically coffee,” he says with a…

If enough money is involved and enough people believe that two plus two equals five the media will report the story with a straight…

— Susan Jacoby

“She glanced over her shoulder at him. “So until the wedding ceremony in your chapel, we’ll be chaste?” Her smile flirted and taunted, and…

— Christina Dodd

“Innocent? Is that supposed to be funny? An obese man... a disgusting man who could barely stand up; a man who if you saw…

— John Doe

“Once you confessed to someone that you had been very depressed when dining with her several months earlier. She was stunned, discovering her blindness…

— Édouard Levé

“He alienated his friends in the sciences by thanking them extravagantly for scientific advances he had read about in the recent newspapers and magazines,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“It's painful to believe that the would-be 'public servants' you're forced to choose between are all phonies whose only real concern is their own…

— David Foster Wallace

“I want you both to show me how much you know about each other,” he began. “I want you both to make me a…

— Ree Drummond

“Dimity said, "I wrote him poetry!" (...) "Dimity," Sophronia said, horrified by such an admission, "you didn't give him the poetry, did you?" "Certainly…

— Gail Carriger

I have always believed that the key to a happy marriage was the ability to say with a straight face, 'Why, I don't know…

— Judith Martin

“You said she works at an ice-cream shop around here, right?” He made a big show of wiping the sweat off his brow. “Come…

— Julie James

I don't think anybody can with a straight face say that the Russians did not set out to influence our election, and they did…

— Stephen Colbert

It’s not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do…

— Robert A. Heinlein

No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment.

— Peter Camejo

Knew it from the start, nah somethin wasn't right/ Felt somethin different when I looked into your eyes/ Things change, re-arrange, won't ever be…

— Tactics

“She narrowed her eyes at him. She wanted to tell him that it was his fault, that she would never have tripped if he’d…

— Kimberly Derting